Angela Lansbury Joins Mary Poppins Returns

Deadline reports the three-time Oscar nominee will play the Balloon Lady, a character from P.L. Travers’ children’s books. A five-time Tony winner, Lansbury is a Disney veteran having starred in such classics as “Bedknobs and Broomsticks” and “Beauty and the Beast,”

Set in Depression-era London, the film follows the adult lives of Michael (Whishaw) and Jane Banks (Mortimer), the children from “Mary Poppins.” According to Deadline, “After Michael suffers a personal loss, the nanny Mary Poppins (Blunt) re-enters the lives of the Banks family, and, along with the optimistic street lamplighter Jack (Miranda), uses her magical skills to help the family rediscover the joy and wonder missing in their lives.” Streep will play Mary’s eccentric cousin Topsy.

Now filming at Shepperton Studios in England, “Mary Poppins Returns” will open Christmas 2018.